Lorne Michaels Quotes
When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.
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We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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Aim at perfection and nothing less. Need the best. Deserve the best. Those who say it's not possible are the people who decided to settle.
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When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
